#62 Fasting and Medicine with Professor Valter Longo
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is a world renowned scientist and researcher Professor Valter Longo.
Most well recognised for his work in the longevity field and fasting., Valter has thirty years of experience in the field of longevity and healthy eating. He is the Director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California – Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, and the Director of the Longevity and Cancer Program at the IFOM Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan, Italy. He is the author of the best seller “The Longevity Diet” and is also the scientific director of the Create Cures Foundation and the Valter Longo Foundation.
On today’s pod we talk about
- What fasting means and the different types of fasting
- The longevity diet and the fasting mimicking diet (FMD), and what are their aims?
- Does the scientific data suggest benefit?
- Which are the main features of the longevity diet?
- How many meals should be eaten each day?
- Why fasting works on longevity?
- How does the fasting mimicking diet work?
- The utility of FMD in the treatment of cancer, autoimmune conditions and metabolic disorders
Do check out Professor Longo's book - The Longevity Diet - it really is a very interesting read and full of such great information.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you just do 12 hours and nothing else? |
| 0:08.8 | And then they're a little bit surprised and say, that's all I get for now, yes. |
| 0:12.8 | And then in my third book now for children, I talk about this, B is like, can you just reduce |
| 0:19.9 | your starches by 10% a day, right? |
| 0:23.7 | And people don't realize that when we do the calculations, if you take the pasta, the |
| 0:27.4 | rice, the bread, the potatoes, 10% that say, well, don't I need to get rid of it? |
| 0:32.0 | Absolutely not. |
| 0:33.3 | Don't I need to go lock up? |
| 0:34.3 | Absolutely not. |
| 0:35.3 | People on a lock up diet live shorter, right? |
| 0:37.8 | And people is better to be based on the Landsat Met Analysis. |
| 0:41.4 | It's better to be an 80% carb diet than on a lock up diet. |
| 0:50.9 | Welcome to the Doxys Kitchen podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how |
| 0:55.9 | to improve your health today. |
| 0:58.3 | My name is Dr. Rupi. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm a medical doctor. |
| 1:01.2 | I also study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:08.4 | Join me on this podcast where we explore multiple determinants of what allows you to live |
| 1:14.4 | your best life. |
| 1:16.2 | And remember, you can sign up to thedoxyskitchen.com for the newsletter where we give weekly recipes |
| 1:22.5 | plus tips and hacks on how to improve your lifestyle today. |
| 1:27.5 | My guest is the incredible Professor Walter Longo, an internationally recognised leader |
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